Diverticulitis: A progressive disease? Do multiple recurrences predict less favorable outcomes?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 876-880

  Chapman, Jennifer R ^a   Dozois, Eric J ^a   Wolff, Bruce G ^a   Gullerud, Rachel E ^a   Larson, Dirk R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COLECTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33745301767     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000219682.98158.11     Document Type: Article

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